Prisoner of the Sun
10 Mar - 09 May 2010
PRISONER OF THE SUN
Concrete Erudition 2
March 10 - May 9, 2010
Private view on Sunday 7 March from 3-8 pm
Carrying on from the exhibition The Planet of Signs (Le Plateau, autumn 2009), the second show in the Concrete Erudition programme continues to question the links between art and knowledge, in its varying forms, based on certain contemporary activities.
This time it is architecture, and its utopian, sensual and political extensions, which is the exhibition’s thread. It will be organized around a specific production, commissioned from the American artist Corey McCorkle.
After an initial training as an architect, this artist has been developing, in particular, a line of research which questions the links between utopia, modernism, functionalism and ornamentation. Nurturing an interest in deserted structures, traces of bankrupt utopias, and the time-related interferences proposed by certain monuments, the artist re-places these concrete factors within a network of references where there is a mixture of symbolism, poetry, hallucinatory rituals and mystical afflatus. At the invitation of Guillaume Désanges, the artist has elected to focus his research project on the Retz wilderness, a garden of 18th century architectural “follies” situated near the town of Chambourcy, 15 miles west of Paris. In it the artist will develop a new work aimed at incorporating film, performance, sculpture and writing, which will be presented in the Le Plateau premises. Based on the themes and challenges of this artist’s work, the exhibition will also develop, within a logic of spreading influence and intuitive associations, works, documents and objects which will occupy three areas organized within the show: a Salon, a games room, and a cinema.
Concrete Erudition 2
March 10 - May 9, 2010
Private view on Sunday 7 March from 3-8 pm
Carrying on from the exhibition The Planet of Signs (Le Plateau, autumn 2009), the second show in the Concrete Erudition programme continues to question the links between art and knowledge, in its varying forms, based on certain contemporary activities.
This time it is architecture, and its utopian, sensual and political extensions, which is the exhibition’s thread. It will be organized around a specific production, commissioned from the American artist Corey McCorkle.
After an initial training as an architect, this artist has been developing, in particular, a line of research which questions the links between utopia, modernism, functionalism and ornamentation. Nurturing an interest in deserted structures, traces of bankrupt utopias, and the time-related interferences proposed by certain monuments, the artist re-places these concrete factors within a network of references where there is a mixture of symbolism, poetry, hallucinatory rituals and mystical afflatus. At the invitation of Guillaume Désanges, the artist has elected to focus his research project on the Retz wilderness, a garden of 18th century architectural “follies” situated near the town of Chambourcy, 15 miles west of Paris. In it the artist will develop a new work aimed at incorporating film, performance, sculpture and writing, which will be presented in the Le Plateau premises. Based on the themes and challenges of this artist’s work, the exhibition will also develop, within a logic of spreading influence and intuitive associations, works, documents and objects which will occupy three areas organized within the show: a Salon, a games room, and a cinema.